The Mint’s 250th anniversary coins face a whitewashing controversy

The U.S. Mint began circulating new coins this week in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary. These ...
Stars and Stripes

USS Abraham Lincoln, strike group back in Guam after one year

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group pulled into Guam’s Apra Harbor on Thursday, the ship’s first visit to the island since 2024. The Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by the ...
USNI

USS Abraham Lincoln Quietly Deploys from San Diego

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) prepares to conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) on Nov. 8, 2024. US Navy Photo Less ...
Jewish Journal

Abraham Lincoln’s Akedah

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...
Oregonian

Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt statues returning to downtown Portland, with new stories to tell

In October 2020, during what was dubbed “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” protesters toppled the Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt statues in Portland’s South Park Blocks. Five years later, the ...
Chicago Tribune

Christi Parsons: Abraham Lincoln’s empathy is what our divided nation needs

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...
The New York Times

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction

More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said. The proceeds will help a presidential foundation repay a loan. By Neil Vigdor A pair of leather ...
Chicago Tribune

Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise

In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo ...
Los Angeles Times

‘This isn’t a history lesson’: Inside the new musical about Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s ...
Stars and Stripes

USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego after combat operations deployment in Middle East

The USS Abraham Lincoln, the flagship of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, returned to San Diego on Dec. 20 after completing a successful five-month combat operations deployment to the U.S.
America Magazine

This Thanksgiving, follow Abraham Lincoln’s lead: thank God—and repent

Though many American presidents have played a role in the tradition of Thanksgiving in the United States, Abraham Lincoln was the first to make it an official holiday in November. This Thanksgiving, ...